Tag: landscapes

Navigating digital geographies

We argue that digital geographers need to radically defetishize the construction of spatial data and acknowledge how these black-boxed systems mediate surveillance and capitalist extraction. Rather than taking computational results at face value, we call for methodological transparency and critical engagement, centering the situated, embodied, and political processes that underpin digital spatial knowledge. [continue reading]

National Forgetting in the American South

Using a cultural landscape approach, this study examines all National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) sites in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, located in the southern United States. The NRHP recognizes sites representative of “our” national heritage by listing them on this registry. From analysis of these records and related archival materials and observations garnered from field visits to select historic sites in the parish, this... [continue reading]

Mapping for Whom?

Scholars have shown that communities of color and low-income communities are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and without intervention, scientists will miss localized events in these neighborhoods and these communities might go unrepresented in rainfall models, further exacerbating the disproportionate impact. [continue reading]